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A Plan for Highgate A P L A N FOR HIGHGATE Highgate Neighbourhood Plan Draft For Consultation January 2015 Foreword Welcome to the Highgate Neighbourhood Plan – the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum's vision for Highgate for the next 15 years. We hope you like what you see here and will let us know, one way or the other, what you think. More than 50 people who live and work in N6 have contributed ideas, time and energy to the Plan, but thanks are due especially to two individuals. Former Chair Maggy Meade-King has been instrumental in holding the Forum together, tirelessly coercing, campaigning and consulting, and making the final edit on the Plan. Without Maggy's focus and drive it is doubtful whether the Forum would exist at all. The other is Elspeth Clements who played the central role in pulling the Plan together. It is difficult to reach compromises and coordinate all interested parties in Highgate with officers from one Borough Council, let alone two. Elspeth has attended dozens of meetings, discussed and written planning policy, and pushed hard to include elements that seemed unthinkable at the outset. How and why the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum was set up and why we have a Neighbourhood Plan is covered in detail in the following pages, but without Maggy and Elspeth it is unlikely the Forum, and certainly the Plan, would ever have reached this stage. My thanks, on behalf of everyone involved with the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum, to them both. Rachel Allison Chair, Highgate Neighbourhood Forum January 2015 2 Contents Page Foreword 2 Contents page 3 Acknowledgements 4 Section 1: Introduction 6 Section 2: A summary of Highgate 13 Section 3: A vision for Highgate 19 Section 4: Plan-wide policies - SC: Social and community 25 - EA: Economic activity 31 - TR: Traffic and transport 38 - OS: Open spaces and public realm 47 - DH: Development and heritage 59 Section 5: Key Area policies - KA: Highgate’s Key Areas 72 Section 6: Non-statutory Community Action Plan 92 Section 7: Delivery Plan and Monitoring 95 3 Acknowledgements The Forum would like to thank those who have contributed to the Plan over the production process. These include CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, Planning Aid – specifically Adam Brown - and Locality for guiding us in the process, and the London Boroughs of Camden and Haringey for their support and advice. The Department for Communities and Local Government for awarding us a Supporting Communities in Neighbourhood Planning grant, which enabled us to engage Alex Munro of Maroon Planning to help us write the Plan. Thanks are also due to Lauderdale House for processing the grant for us. In addition, the Highgate Society, Channing School, the Murugan Hindu Temple, Jacksons Lane, St Michael’s Church, the United Reformed Church and The Bull public house for generously donating their premises. Photos: Ian Henghes, Hannah Liptrot, Maggy Meade-King, Alicia Pivaro, Christopher Riley Maps, website and technical support: Ian Henghes Social media: Christoph Schedl Text: Martin Adeney, Rachel Allison, Karen Beare, Simon Briscoe, Sydney Charles, Elspeth Clements, Anne Jamieson, Michael Hammerson, Louise Lewis, Hannah Liptrot, Alan Marriott, Maggy Meade-King, Jim Meikle, Alex Munro (Maroon Planning), Martin Narraway, Neil Perkins, Alicia Pivaro, David Porter, Christopher Riley, Susan Rose, Gail Waldman 4 HIGHGATE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN KEY DIAGRAM Fig 1 Key areas and open spaces 5 Section 1: Introduction A neighbourhood plan for Highgate Why does Highgate need a neighbourhood plan? Highgate is an area, in planning terms, which is split between a number of London Boroughs and has never benefitted from a cohesive and singular set of development guidelines that recognise and seek to preserve the unique character and needs of the neighbourhood area. The people of Highgate therefore felt that they should seize the opportunity presented by neighbourhood planning through the Localism Act to define their boundaries and provide a set of statutory policies that can genuinely influence the quality and quantity of development within Highgate. This Plan has set out to identify the issues and opportunities that exist in Highgate and create clear policies that seek to overcome them or embrace them. This process began with the characterisation of Highgate and the identification of a clear vision and list of objectives that can be found in Part 3 of this Plan. It culminated in the production of a suite of clear and targeted planning policies that have been developed by the community for the community. 6 What is the Highgate Neighbourhood Plan? The Highgate Neighbourhood Plan (‘the Plan’) has been produced by the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum (‘the Forum’), which was formed by a number of amenity groups, residents’ organisations and individuals (including all of the local Councillors) and formally designated as the legal body able to deliver a neighbourhood plan by Camden and Haringey Councils in December 2012. The Forum was set up with one simple aim – to deliver a plan that benefits the local community and Highgate as a whole. It is one of the first of a new type of planning document, introduced as part of the Localism Act in 2011, that gives communities the opportunity to develop planning policies that will help shape development in their area. Neighbourhood plans are statutory planning documents that carry legal weight. This Plan, when adopted, will comprise part of both the London Boroughs of Haringey and Camden’s development plan covering the Highgate area. The policies included in this Plan will be the starting point in the determination of planning applications in Highgate until 2029 (or until the Plan is reviewed). The Plan will cover the 15-year period 2015-2030 (‘the Plan period’). Over this period it will be subject of monitoring to ensure the policies it contains successfully deliver against its stated objectives. Depending on the effectiveness of the Plan, the Forum will likely review and update the document prior to the end of the Plan period to ensure it continues to provide an effective strategy for Highgate well into the future. The Plan has been developed through wide consultation with a number of groups and bodies, including the residents of Highgate, landowners, local interest groups, as well as officers from the London Boroughs of Camden and Haringey, to guarantee it represents a strategy that is both appropriate and deliverable. Details of the consultation programme, and how it has helped shape the final objectives and policies, are contained in the Consultation Statement that accompanies the Plan. As the Plan carries a significant level of legal weight, it has been prepared in strict accordance with all relevant primary and secondary legislation – principally Schedule 4B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (‘the Act’) and the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (‘the Regulations’). Reference to these documents will ensure that the Plan comprises a set of policies that are procedurally sound in their preparation. The most important legal requirement of the Plan is that it must pass the ‘basic conditions’ test. The basic conditions require the plan to: • Have regard to all national level policies contained in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), as well as accompanying guidance published by the Secretary of State; • Be in general conformity with the strategic policies of the adopted development plan (comprising the London Plan and the local development frameworks, or ‘local plans’ of both Camden and Haringey); • Contribute towards the achievement of sustainable development; and • Demonstrate compliance with all relevant EU obligations. 7 The compliance of the Plan with the tests set out above is demonstrated within the accompanying Basic Conditions Statement. Preparing the Plan Defining Highgate One of the first steps that needed to be taken when delivering a neighbourhood plan for Highgate was to identify and designate the ‘Plan area’. The Plan area broadly covers the postcode of N6, which has been a common definition of “Highgate” since the postcode was introduced nearly 100 years ago. The area lies within the boroughs of Camden and Haringey. In a practical sense, however, and in the minds of residents and businesses, the limits of Highgate are fuzzy around the edges. Some such streets are even in the adjoining boroughs of Islington and Barnet but working with this many boroughs would be impractical. Where the Forum was initially unsure if particular streets or residential areas regarded themselves as being within ‘Highgate’, those residing in them were contacted directly for their views. As a result of this consultation, the Forum also had close regard to the proposed neighbouring Plan areas of Archway, Crouch End, Dartmouth Park and Hampstead when defining the extent of Highgate’s boundaries. The result is that the Plan covers the area widely regarded as ‘Highgate’ by those who live and work in what is a distinctive part of North London. It is also the area that is covered by the amenity societies affiliated with the Forum. The final Plan area was approved by the London Borough of Camden and the London Borough of Haringey on 17 December 2012. The extent of the Plan area is set out in Figure 2, on page 9. 8 Fig 2 Highgate Neighbourhood Forum Map Consultation In preparing the Plan, one of the golden threads that have run through the process from its inception is the importance placed on consultation and the engagement of Highgate’s
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